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by vpeters25 10y ago
I think expanding risk pools across states is a very tricky problem. It would imply overriding states' self-determination regarding regulation of insurance companies which is a big no-no for Republicans.
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by vpeters25 10y ago
Forgot to mention FSA. Employers love them because unused money deducted from your paycheck (i.e. YOUR MONEY) goes back to them. I suggest you look into HSA accounts instead.
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by vpeters25 10y ago
I think you hit the nail on the actual issue with health care in the USA. The problem is not as much insurance companies but medical providers' price-gouging. Edit: sometimes it's a good idea to call ahead and ask for "uninsu
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by vpeters25 10y ago
> because Medicare reimburses about 7% less than the direct costs of services, in the aggregate. It's one of the reasons you see very few private practices which cater solely, or even primarily, to Medicare patients. Could you pleas
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by vpeters25 10y ago
In my opinion, translating Neruda is a monumental task: the translator might get the essence behind the words, but as a native Spanish speaker, there are dimensions to the way he played with words that I have found, can only be enjoyed by r
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by vpeters25 10y ago
I think Microsoft is marketing Azure hard and companies are buying. I landed a gig related to Azure training and it's keeping me almost full-time busy right now. Considering this is the holidays there is a good chance we will be even b
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by vpeters25 10y ago
> It feels a bit like the U.S. thinks the rest of the world isn't capable of looking after itself. And perhaps it isn't, and some boarders will be redrawn, but I get the feeling a lot of people are ready to give it a shot. Well
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by vpeters25 10y ago
I wonder if anybody close to the auto industry could shed some light as to whether there are engineering reasons behind what appears to be a deliberate effort to make their EVs look as ugly as possible.
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by vpeters25 10y ago
> I wish Valve would have been more successful with Steam OS I think Valve has done an outstanding job, unfortunately, other game studios and controller manufacturers don't seem to care. For example Logitech gaming wheels don't
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by vpeters25 10y ago
I think it would be worth considering that we are long ways from the punch card days. There are programming languages, frameworks and tools which would be unlikely to exist without "advances" such as TDD.
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by vpeters25 10y ago
I don't how how the actual law is written but maybe the Muni could just supply dark fiber and allow private ISPs to provide the actual broadband service.
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by vpeters25 10y ago
> the person running the Scrum process needs to know how shit really works. This is rarely the case. I agree, while a very simple process, people who don't get it tend to complicate it. They focus on the process instead of the resul
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by vpeters25 10y ago
That's the point: while there might be just 1 team member with a clear understanding of the effort, everybody gets to pick an estimate based on their own knowledge of the subject matter, even if they know nothing. The exercise of just
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by vpeters25 10y ago
In agile, the estimates should be decided by consensus of the whole team. Requiring a single engineer to come up with an estimate is a smell. Here is a quick 4 step planning meeting process based on planning poker: 1. Pick story from backlo
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by vpeters25 10y ago
> First of all, what are story points? Are they measures of time it takes to complete a story? If yes, then why are they not in terms of time? Are they measures of complexity? Story points are a measure of "relative amounts of effor
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by vpeters25 10y ago
> Keep in mind that Scrum was designed by consultants working for organizations that don't understand software development. Scrum was "designed" by Ken Schwaber, a software project manager at the time looking for a better
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by vpeters25 10y ago
My opinion is rather than outright banning fuel-burning, we should just ban releasing their emissions to the atmosphere. While this would ban current fuel burning technology, it might allow for someone to come up with a car engine or coal t
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by vpeters25 10y ago
This sounds like a more balanced approach than the linked article which claims an outright ban on oil-based vehicles. I think banning any technology is a bad idea. Imho, the problem with climate change is not the burning of oil or carbon, b
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by vpeters25 11y ago
Same here. last week I was sent a Codility test, tried the demo and failed miserably. Then I noticed the test was expressing constraints using time/space complexity, concepts I was completely unaware about for my previous 15+ years in
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by vpeters25 11y ago
> "You can teach everyone to be a great programmer" They tried this during the dot-com boom of the late 90's... I don't think it worked out too well. They hired just about anyone and paid crazy rates. You could point
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by vpeters25 11y ago
I initially thought the same and found it was really hard to shake it off. It took me several weeks of frustratingly sticking up with the exercises until I was able to do it. But I still tend to fall back into it when I'm reading somet
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by vpeters25 11y ago
The book I used on speed reading claimed subvocalization (internal monologue) was a "bad habit" that can be eliminated with practice. As far as my personal experience, it does.
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by vpeters25 11y ago
In my personal experience just inhibiting subvocalization resulted in increasing my reading speed to around 300 wpm. With other techniques (using peripheral vision to read multiple words per "shot") I got to around 440 wpm. All th
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by vpeters25 11y ago
Link to the actual paper: http://psi.sagepub.com/content/17/1/4.full?ijkey=0GSjhNaccRK... I took on speed reading in college after realizing I needed to study and learn faster or I would fail miserably. The b
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by vpeters25 11y ago
> Doesn't this all seem a bit dramatic? Precisely. I find amusing how every time there is a trend up in the price, there is a flood of doom sayers, as though they want to force the price down... I think the bitcoin network is fine.
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by vpeters25 11y ago
Correct, Agile is a development process. As for needing tools, at least scrum doesn't need anything more than pen and paper to generate its artifacts: 2 lists (backlogs) and a chart (burndown).
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by vpeters25 11y ago
I think the standup meeting is there because it follows the first principle of the Agile Manifesto: "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"
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by vpeters25 11y ago
> The entire system of copyright and recorded art needs to be abolished, and any music that is recorded instantly becomes the public domain. I think that is a little extreme but I agree the system is way out of hand, specially in duratio
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by vpeters25 11y ago
It should not be, that's the main premise of my idea: create a new email protocol that completely replaces both SMTP and IMAP based on actual use cases instead of being constrained by 40+ years of legacy protocols and extensions. Clien
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by vpeters25 11y ago
From JMAP description on github: > It aims to be compatible with the IMAP data model, Unlike this project, I think user requirements should drive the protocol's design, not a need to be compatible with SMTP/IMAP.

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